jou
[ˈʒow]
The verdict
“jou” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,102 among 645 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,102
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Yugo (para unir dos animales de carga).
Corpus desk
Index ES-jou · jou · Spanish
jou · rank #81,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,102
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH journalism
Nearest frequency peer: journalism (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “jou”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- intitulado
intitulado
18,909 corpus weight
- jales
jales
18,904 corpus weight
- Jasso
Jasso
18,903 corpus weight
- jou
jou
18,899 corpus weight
- journalism
journalism
18,898 corpus weight
- Kamel
Kamel
18,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “jou” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jou |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʒow] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #81,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “jou” en español
Rare enough to double-check
jou is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,102 among 645 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʒow]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for jou in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is jou, spelled J-O-U.
Definition
- 1Yugo (para unir dos animales de carga).
- 2Yugo (sometimiento, esclavitud).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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